The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-10
NO. 80.

tam, and tell to all the mountains and val
leys and rivers and lax es of North and
South, jeremiads of war times that have
never been svllabled.
Beside that domestic perturbation and
home sickness Of those days put the sweet
domesticity of to-day. The only camp
fire you now ever sit at is the one kindled
in stove or furnace or hearth Instead OF
half-ratiou of salt pork, a repast luxu-
RANT because parta1en of by loving fami
ly circle and in secret confidence. o.
now l see who those letters were for, the
letters you, the young soldier, took so
long in your tent to write, and that
you were so particular TO put
in the mail without any one seeing you
lest you be teased by your comrades. God
spared you to get back, and gh the
old people have gone you have home of
your own construction, and you often con-
strast those awful absences and filial and
brotherly and lovely heartbreaks with
your present residence, which is the dear
est place you will find this side of Heaven.
The place where your children were born
is the place where you want to die. TO
write the figures of 1852 1 set up four
crys stals-crysta of tears. To write the
figures Of 1887 stand up four members
of your ehold-hgures of rosy cheeks
and laxen hair, if I can get them to stand
still long enough.
of twenty years ago with now. Often on
on the march from Sunday morn till
night, or commanded by officers who con-
sidered the names of God and Christ OF
no use except to swear by. Sometimes
the drumhead the pulpit and you stand
ing in heat or cold, all the surroundings
of military life having tendency to make
you reckless. No privacy for prayer or
Bible reading No sound Of church bells.
Sabbath spent far away from the place
where you were brought up. Now the
choicest sanctuaries, easy pew, all Chris
tian surroundings, the air full Of God,
and Christ, and Heaven, and doxol-
ogy Three mountains lifting them
selves into the holy light-Mouht
Sinai laundering its law, Mount Calvary
pleading its sacrifice, Mount Pisgah dis
playing the promised land.
Contrast of National condition: 1862,
spending money by the millions in devas
tation Of property and life; 1887 the
finances so reconstructed that all the
stock gamblers of Wall street combined
can not make a National panic S62, sur
geons setting broken bones, and ampu-
tating gangrened limbs, and studying
gunshot fractures, and inventing easy
ambuances for the wounded and dying;
1887, surgeons giving their attention 10
those in casualty of agriculture, of com
merce or mechanic al life, the rushing of
bilC dAi ibuAAhNC NAAA 81 Jul hAA DDbo tAbb
suggesting battle, but quick re-
lief of some one fallen in
peaceful Industries; 1852 35-
900, 600 inhabitants in this land; 1887, So
900, 600; 1882 wheat about so, 600, 600 bush
els; 1887, the wheat will be about 500,
100000 bushels; 1862, Pacific coast five
weeks from the Atlantic; 1887, for three
reasons-Union Pacific, Southern Pacific
Northern Pacifc-only seven days across.
Look at the long line Of churches, unIver-
stiles, asylums and houses with which
during the last few years this land has
been decorated.
Living soldiers of the North aud South,
take a new and special ordination at this
season Of the year, TO garland the sepul-
cheres Of your fallen comrades. Nothing
is too good for their memories Turn all
the private tombs and the National ceme-
teries into gardens. Ye dead Of Malvern
Hill, and Cold Harbor, and Murfrees boro,
and Manassas Junction, and Cumberland
Gap, and field hospital, receive these
Nhoral offerings of the living soldiers.
''But they shall come again, all the
dead troops We sometimes talk about
earthly military reviews, such as took
place in Paris in the time of Marshal Ney,
in London in the tlme of Wellington, and
IN our own land, but what tame things
compared with the final review, when all
the armies Of the ages shall pass for d.
vine and angelic inspection. st. John
says the armies of Heaven ride on white
horses, and don't know but many Of the
old cavalry horses Of earthly battle, that
were wounded and worn out In service,
may have resurrection IL would be only
fair that, raised up and ennobled, they
would be res esurrected for the grand re
view Of the Judgment Day. II would not
take any more power to reconstruct their
bodies than to reconstruct ours, and
1 should be very glad 10
see them among the white
horses of Apocalyptic vision. Hark 20
the trumpet blast the reveillo Of tho last
judgment They come up--all the armies
Of all lands and all centuries, on which
ever side they fought, whether for free
dom or despotism, for the right or tho
wrong. They comel They come Darius,
and Cyrus, and Sennacherib, and Joshua,
and David, leading forth the armies Of
Scriptural times; Hannibal and Hamilear
le aiding forth the Carthagenians; Victor
Emanuel and Garibaldi leading on the
armies of the Italians; Tamerlane and
Ghengis Kahn followed by the armies Of
Asia; Gustavus AdolDhus, and Ptolemy
Philopater, and Xerxes, and Al
exander, and Semiramis, and Wash
ingtou, leading battalion after bat
TALON. The dead American armies Of
1875 and 1912 and 1000, 600 OF Northern and
Southern dead in our civil war-they
come up; they pass on in review. The g.
600, 600 fallen in Napoleonic battles; the ~,
0OO, 600 Germans fallen In the Thirty Years
war; the 1900, 900 fallen ia tho war un-
der Sosostris; the 1000, 900 ia len in the
wars OF Justinian: the 25 900, 900 fallen in
Jewish wars; the 50, OO0 900 fallen in the
wars with Saracens and Turks; the 35,-
900, O0O, 600 estimated to have fallen in bat
tle-enough, according TO one statistician,
if they stood four abreast, TO reach clear
around the earth AZ times.
..NV 4.
in review before the throne Of judgment,
the cayalrymen, the artillerymen, the
spearmen, the infantry, the sharpshOoters,
the gunners, the sapp9rs, the miners, the
archers, the skirmishers, mon Of all
colOrs, Of all epaulets. Of all weapOnry,
Of all countries. Let the earth be es-
pecially balanced to bear their tread.
Forward Forward Let the orchestra
OF the Heavenly galleries play the grand
march, joined by all the dfers, drummers
and military bands that ever sounded
victory or defeat at Kglau or Borobino
Marathon or Thermopy lg, Bunker Hill
or Y Yorktown, SolferinO or Balaklava
Sedan or Gettys burg, from the timo
when Joshua halted astronomy
above Gibbon and Ajalon till the last
man surrendered TO Garnet Wolsely at
Tel-e1- Kebir. Nations, companies, bat
talions, ages, centuries and the universe
Forward IN tho grand review Of tho
Judgment Forward Gracious and
eternal Godl On that day may 10 be
found that we are ali marching in the
right regiment and that we carried the
right standard and that we fought under
the right commander, all heaven, some
on amethystiue battiement and others
standing in the shining gates, some on
pearly shore and others on turreted
heights giving Us the resounding, mil
liOn-voiced cheer:
I.o him that overeomefbf
Bless be the Lord God Of Israel from
everlasting 70 everlasting, and let the
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